Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 30: Bari Brahmana Industries Association (BBIA) has urged the J&K UT Administration to defer cancellation and eviction process of the allotted Industrial plots in the region.
In an emergency meeting of the BBIA held under the chairmanship of Lalit Mahajan (president), all the office bearers including Tarun Singla-senior vice president, Ajay Langer – vice president, Viraaj Malhotra – general secretary and others took serious note of the decision taken by the UT Administration that Govt to initiate process for retrieval of unutilized land in all Industrial Estates.
Members present in the meeting expressed concern in respect of Govt order 233-Ind of 2021 dated 22-11-2021 issued by the Industries and Commerce Department for the nomination of General Manager, JKSIDCO, Jammu and Kashmir Division as Member for eviction process with regard to cancellation of lease deed and eviction of allottees in Industrial Estates Managed by J&K SIDCO.
Mahajan, drew the attention of Ranjan Prakash Thakur, Principal Secretary, Industries & Commerce Department, Jammu stating that hundreds of cases for the renewal of provisional registration of Industrial units, who has already taken effective steps in respect of construction of factory building, installation of machinery and in some cases, placed orders for the machinery, awaiting the approval of the Apex Committee pending since long. He also referred to the Govt Order No.214-IND of 2021 dated 02-11-2021 for the constitution of Sub-Committee for examining the proposal for the grant of extension in the validity of provisional registration in respect of units which were provisionally registered prior to the notification of J&K Industrial Policy 2021-30 in accordance with the directions issued in the meeting of 47th Apex Project Clearance Committee held on 02-09-2021 with the directions to submit the report within a period of seven days.
Mahajan recalled that number of Industrial units having Permanent Registration with Industries Department closed since last few years due to unforeseen circumstances like non- availability of supply orders from Govt, financial constrains, death of the promoters etc. and it is unjustified to cancel the lease deeds of such closed units which will be amount to unnecessary litigation as no such clause incorporated in the lease deeds duly executed in the Court of Law.
BBIA also referred to the point No. 18.2 of Govt order No. 129-IND of 2017 dated 07-06-2017 which says, ” Once all the steps have been exhausted for the revival and rehabilitation of sick industrial unit, the Govt shall provide an exit route to the sick unit by allowing transfer of its ownership/lease hold rights to another entrepreneur provided all the liabilities are cleared.”
The Association appealed to the Principal Secretary, Industries & Commerce, RP Thakur to defer the decision taken to start the eviction process till the final decision taken in the next Apex Committee meeting.
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